Posted on 03/15/2019 6:24:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode
As the fallout from the nationwide elite college bribery scheme continues, the indicted Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and STX Entertainment co-founder Bill McGlashan have all been hit today in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from one very angry mother.
That’s “no less than $500,000,000,000” angry to be specific.
“Joshua applied to some of the colleges where the cheating took place and did not get in,” says award winning former Oakland school teacher Jennifer Kay Toy of her 4.2 graduating son. “Joshua and I believed that he’d had a fair chance just like all other applicants but did not make the cut for some undisclosed reason,” Toy adds in the multi-claim fraud class action filed in a San Francisco court (read it here), with a hard tone that not even the filing can hide.
Filed yesterday, the class action doesn’t just go after the American Crime star, the Fuller House actor and the managing partner of TPG Growth but all the 30 other parents and more indicted and arrested this week in the “Operation Varsity Blues” bust. Like the other parents, Huffman, Loughlin, the Garage Sale Mysteries actor’s fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and now ex-STX board member McGlashan are being charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services fraud, according to the unsealed indictment.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Would these elite grabbers sue if they were the ones being disadvantaged? One can't help but suspect they would.
Furthermore, I've always believed that sports should NOT be part of the higher education experience.
Although we enjoy our sports...it is corrupt to the core in regards to university admissions/higher education. Many exceptions to be sure.
Have you ever listened to interviews at the end of football/basketball game? Some of these guys sound like hood rats despite a four year college education.
“Would have liked to see cher, rosy O’Donnell, joy bazar whoopee Goldberg, Alyssa Milano in that situation”
I’d add Alec Baldwin to that list, abd am surprised he’s not on it. It’s something he would do. Of course, his kids could be smart enough to achieve without cheating. I don’t think he cares a whit about his kids, but does care about status for himself.
About 20 years ago, one of the students I tutored (to improve his fundamentals for a higher SAT Math score) was an incredible LH pitcher. He chose the college rout. But he could've gone another way. One team offered him a Minor League opportunity with coordination with a local university so he could be a part-time student in a program that would lead to a degree. He went the other way, and wrecked his arm at a prestigious school.
I wouldn't mind the sports programs or even Affirmative Action if the students had to be EQUAL to others before being chosen. The way it is now, in many cases athletes and minorities never meet their full potential because they are faced with lower expectations.
Another can of worms is the number of seats that go to foreigners. As an MA resident, it frosted me that Harvard and MIT (and all colleges) got so many tax breaks. Yet MA students were held to a higher standard for admissions than foreign students are!
The system is out of control. Has been for decades. I'm not sure if it's a symptom or a cause for the downward slide the US is in.
Yea...not a good week for these beautiful people.
and meanwhile, just like hillary clintoon, so called “affirmative action” walks free.
Coaches are the tip of the iceberg... How many 'professors' are turning a blind eye to athletes and bribers who don't turn in assignments and fail every test?
There's not enough room in grievance studies to graduate all these idiots.
A son, who is in his early 50's with a double engineering degree and the equivalent of a MBA coined the phrase: Instant Unemployment Degrees shortly after he was graduated from college.
Instant Unemployment Degrees are years of worthless bs studies which saddle the grads and dropouts with tons of student loans. That not only impacts the kids, it is causing defaults in home loans of their parents.
His kids have gone to excellent private high schools due to sacrifices of their parents and sharing of expenses by older relatives.
Supposedly these private schools would open the doors to the colleges the kids wanted to go to. Even with outstanding SAT's and good grades, the games played by California colleges excluded these kids. A son graduating this year with great Stem grades and SAT scores got 9 offers to go to good universities out of state and one good engineering school here in in California. His older sibling with even better grades and higher SATs was basically ignored by every California college. She was accepted at an out of state school with a $100,000 scholarship for a 4 year program. She is wrapping up her second year/STEM 2nd semester with all A's and 2 B's.
Lol.
Yeah, this is classic grandstanding and attention whoring on the part of these lawyers.
“but Asians are the majority or very close to it at UCLA.”
Thanks for this data.
A good question would be how many of the Asians are American Asian or out of country Asian.
LOL
“Help me. Am I to understand that even though the fix was in, the kid(s) didn’t score high enough to get in?”
Apparently, in some if not many situations, someone else took the SAT tests for these elitist dummies.
Lifetime should change their scheduling for a week long series of episodes in which the accused have starred, intermingled with an OJ-fest of movies, and every 15 minutes a followup report on their criminal behavior.
“Help me. Am I to understand that even though the fix was in, the kid(s) didn’t score high enough to get in?”
Key Ingredient in College-Admissions Scheme: A Harvard-Graduate Test Whiz
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 15, 2019 | Jennifer Levitz and Brian Costa
Posted on 3/15/2019, 10:12:49 AM by billorites
BOSTON—He was a test-taking whiz who could get any score on demand, federal prosecutors say, and the secret weapon in the college-admissions cheating scandal.
Mark Riddell, a 36-year-old Harvard University graduate, used his uncanny ability to boost scores fraudulently on college-entrance exams for teens of wealthy families participating in the scheme, according to federal filings.
“He did not have inside information about the correct answers,” the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Andrew Lelling, said after announcing Tuesday’s federal charges. “He was just smart enough to get a near-perfect score.”
Prosecutors say Mr. Riddell, who lives outside Tampa, Fla., was central to the cheating scheme. He has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud and a money-laundering-related charge, according to court documents, and is scheduled to appear in court in Boston in April.
After the charges, Mr. Riddell issued a statement apologizing for the damage and grief he caused. “I understand how my actions contributed to a loss of trust in the college admissions process,” he said.
Prosecutors said William Rick Singer’s testing scheme took place at least 30 times back as far as 2011. Of the 33 parents who were charged Tuesday, at least 16 are linked in court documents to Mr. Riddell, who was referred to as “Cooperating Witness 2.”
He has been helping with the investigation since February in hopes of leniency, federal filings say.
In one case, a test had to be scheduled at a later date because Mr. Riddell had a baby, according to the filings.
Another time, Mr. Riddell used false identification to pose as a student. After a Los Angeles teen had tonsillitis and couldn’t meet Mr. Riddell at the Houston test site—where the plan was for Mr. Riddell to fix the teen’s test answers afterward.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3734905/posts
I’m wondering why the kids have not been expelled if they got into the schools by bribery?
What they did was wrong, but this of way over the top. When they go after the crooked politicians and their ill-gotten-gains with this much force, then I’ll be impressed.
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